Located in Kansas City, Kansas, Perrigo Animal Health, formerly Sergeant's Pet Care Products, specializes in animal health care products. Perrigo Company plc, a top five global over-the-counter (OTC) consumer goods and pharmaceutical company, offers consumers and customers high quality products at affordable prices. From its beginnings in 1887 as a packager of generic home remedies, Perrigo, headquartered in Ireland, has grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of OTC products and supplier of infant formulas for the store brand market. The Company is also a leading provider of branded OTC products, generic extended topical prescription products and receives royalties from Multiple Sclerosis drug Tysabri?. Perrigo provides "Quality Affordable Healthcare Products?" across a wide variety of product categories and geographies primarily in North America, Europe, and Australia, as well as other key markets including Israel and China.

Summary:

The Plant Engineer will coordinate and control plant maintenance activities to make efficient use of manpower and equipment in the plant for repair and preventative maintenance, while maintaining safety, quality, and sanitation standards as dictated by Sergeants policy.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

* Coordination and control of plant maintenance activities to make efficient use of manpower and equipment in the plant for repair and preventative maintenance, while maintaining safety, quality, and sanitation standards as dictated by Sergeants policy.

* Manage, develop, plan of maintenance SOP's to ensure proper repair and preventative of all equipment to ensure proper specifications are being met and maintained.

* Must have excellent written, oral and computer communications skills to effectively communicate in person, through letters/emails/reports, and/or over the phone.

* Leadership of team members under your supervision to insure that they are advancing their understanding of their respective areas becoming prepared to step into other/higher leadership roles.

* Ensure that technicians maintain a level of expertise within their emphasis through training, SOP development, goal development, follow-up, and performance appraisals, etc.

* Participate in research and development for engineering and project management requirements on new and emerging products.

* Analyze, evaluate, and present information concerning factors such as capabilities, problems, trends, and design on new and existing plant and equipment for consideration by other members of the management team.

* Conduct communication meetings on a regular and routine basis with your team members and other members of the management team to coordinate functions and operations between departments, and to establish responsibilities and procedures for attaining objectives.

* Review technical problems and procedures of your department and recommend solutions or changes in procedures.

* Have a clear understanding of the Sergeant's Inc. Mission and its business, products and Quality goals/objectives

* Project Management and engineering of expensed and capital projects for plant process improvements, new plant equipment, and plant expansions.